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Wilson was the 28th President of the United States and served two terms from 1913 to 1921.
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On June 28th, 1914 Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated which starts WW1. 5 years later the Treaty of Versailles is signed ending the war.
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Lusitania was a British ocean liner sunk by a German boat in 1915. This sinking led up to the U.S. declaring war on Germany 2 years later.
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The relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the North, Midwest, and West.
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Jeannette Rankin was the first woman elected to Congress in 1917.
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A revolution happened in Russia, ending centuries of imperial rule and setting into motion political and social changes that leads to the Soviet Union.
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President Wilson signed this act into law in 1917, this law stated that all men age 21 to 30 must register for military service.
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Enforced heavily by A. Mitchell Palmer who was the attorney general at the time, made it a crime for a person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces.
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Influenza, or flu, spread worldwide from 1918 to 1919. It infected about 500 million worldwide and killed about 50 million worldwide.
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A statement of principles for peace that was used for negotiations to end World War 1.
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The Sedition Act was a piece of legislation that imposed harsh punishments on anyone found guilty of making false statements that interfered with the war, or anything insulting the U.S. government or flag.
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A legal case that ruled free speech can be restricted if words spoken or printed represent a clear and present danger.
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The Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 which formally ended World War 1.
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The Federal Volstead Act closed every bar in the United States. From then on it was illegal to sell any intoxication beverages with more than 0.5% alcohol, this led to crime figures and gangsters like Al Capone
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The 1920 Summer Olympics took place in Antwerp, Belgium, very close to the ending of World War 1, which caused many countries to not be able to participate due to the destruction.
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The 19th amendment prohibits the states and federal government from denying citizens the right to vote based on sex.
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A bribery scandal that lasted from 1921 to 1923 that involved the President at the time Warren G. Harding.
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Walt Disney and his brother Roy officially founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in Hollywood California.
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The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald that is a story about people living in Long Island in 1922.
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The collapse of stock prices on Wall Street which led to the Great Depression.
